Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has called for a Congressional inquiry into whether Joe Biden should be impeached over his son’s posts with Chinese officials.
Cruz, speaking on a podcast, said a series of texts show Hunter Biden used his access to his father to secure his lucrative business deals abroad.
It comes after First Son, 53, entered a plea deal last week with federal prosecutors in Delaware over tax and gun violations.
But GOP leader Cruz said Congress should open an investigation into whether the president himself used his position to line his pockets.
Cruz said on his podcast that Congress should open a possible impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden amid allegations that he personally profited from Hunter’s business dealings.
“Look, this WhatsApp is direct evidence that Joe Biden is abusing his government power to enrich his son and, assuming 10% for the big man, to enrich himself,” he said.
“Remember, this WhatsApp says ‘we want to know.’ This isn’t just me, Hunter, making fun of my dad… Of course the House should investigate,” the Republican claimed.
But any idea that an impeachment motion would succeed is far-fetched because the upper house of Congress, the Senate, is currently controlled by Democrats.
Conservatives have long argued that Hunter Biden is guilty of using his family ties to rake in millions of dollars abroad.
They are investigating his deals in Ukraine and China that they say were made thanks to the access he gained to his father, who was vice president under Barack Obama.
The president’s son was staying at the guest house of Biden’s Delaware home when he wrote a letter to Communist Party official Henry Zhao on July 30, 2017, threatening him to follow his “orders”
Hunter reportedly texted a Chinese Communist Party official, Henry Zhao
Hunter Biden’s many controversies have given his father regular headaches during his stint in the White House
In the 2017 WhatsApp message picked by Cruz, Hunter sent a menacing threat to a Chinese Communist Party official after Joe Biden left the VP office.
He hinted Henry Zhao, CEO of Harvest Fund Management, that if he failed to comply with the unspecified demand, his father would make sure he would be punished.
“And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make sure that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to always holding a grudge you’ll regret if you don’t follow my directions.”
“I’m sitting here with my dad waiting for the call,” Hunter Biden reportedly said.
The allegations undermine consistent claims by the Biden family and administration that Joe was not involved in his son’s foreign business dealings.
Hunter’s lawyers have insisted that the WhatsApp was the chatter of a troubled man in the middle of a drug addiction.
On Friday, an attorney for IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley claimed his efforts to get to the bottom of the WhatsApp story had been rebuffed by prosecutors.
“The officers wanted to follow up on this and the prosecutors told them not to because, well, maybe Hunter Biden was huffing or something,” said Mark Lytle, Shapley’s attorney.
He told Fox News on Friday, “So the agent said, let’s get the GPS location of the two of the father and son, and let’s see if they’re actually in the same room at that time.”
Gary Shapley said Hunter Biden received preferential treatment from IRS and FBI officials
Chris Clark, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, has rejected the allegations against his client
On Thursday, the House Ways and Means Committee released testimony from two IRS whistleblowers — including Shapley — who said the Justice Department, FBI and IRS were interfering in the investigation of the tax evasion case against Hunter Biden.
Jason Smith, a Missouri Republican who chairs the committee, claimed that testimony “outline government misconduct and abuses at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the investigation of Hunter Biden.
“Whistleblowers describe how Biden’s Justice Department intervened and went too far in a campaign to protect Joe Biden’s son by delaying, disclosing and denying an ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden’s alleged tax crimes.”
President Biden has assisted his son Hunter in the face of a series of lawsuits
Last week, Hunter Biden settled a child support legal wrangle with his former fling Lunden Roberts over payments for their daughter Navy Joan, 4.
The commission said on Thursday: “The allegations point to a steady campaign of: unequal treatment of tax law enforcement; Justice Department interference in the form of delays, disclosures, and denials in the investigation of tax crimes that may have been committed by the president’s son; and finally retaliatory action against IRS employees who announced the misconduct.
Hunter Biden’s attorney Chris Clark, who negotiated a plea deal with the Justice Department on Hunter’s behalf, called the whistleblower “biased” and claimed the report related to “a time of turmoil and addiction” for the president’s son .
He also disputed the veracity of Hunter’s claim about current President Biden in the WhatsApp message, saying his words “have no connection to anyone in his family.”
“An extensive, five-year investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice concluded this week, resulting in my client accepting responsibility for two counts of misdemeanor and failure to file tax payments, as well as a firearms charge. , which will be continued. subject to a diversion agreement for the trial,” Clark said.
The first son also managed to reach an out-of-court settlement with alleged former fling Lunden Roberts in a long-running spat over child support payments.
The 53-year-old will now pay $5,000 a month to support his daughter Navy Joan, 4, whom he has never met.